Welcome to Daily Musings! First, some context. While the word “daily” might leave some of you expecting a new entry every day, this will not be the case. The reason for using this word has more to do with the fact that I tend to “muse” about one topic or another (sometimes more than one) on a daily basis, but that does not necessarily translate to writing about these musings on a daily basis. I feel so much better getting that off my chest! Unlike my Spinning Tales blog, which is dedicated to stories, essays, humor, etc., the entries on this blog will be shorter and focused on memorable events and things that, on a daily basis, make me (us?) scratch our heads and say: What? Some of the entries might even evoke a slightly stronger response with a deeper head scratching ending in the loud exclamation: WTF?
Vocabulary.com states: “Use the adjective musing to describe something that’s reflective or thoughtful, like a musing diary entry that explores the meaning of life.” While at this point in time I may have given up on exploring the “meaning of life,” I was intrigued by their use of “musing diary entry.” It got me thinking about how a diary is different than a blog. I feel that many, but not all, blogs are for some the electronic version of a diary; a place where people can articulate, pontificate, verbally masturbate, educate, elucidate, vent, rant and, as I appear to have run out of “ate” words, spill their guts. For me, what makes a diary different than a blog is the audience. Diaries are normally intended to be read by the author and no one else. Unless, of course, you reach a level of fame, your diaries are discovered fifty years after your demise in an abandoned mine shaft, and made into a six episode TV mini series, with a title like: “John Doe: The Untold Story!” A blog, on the other hand, is meant to be shared. While a blog can be private, or shared with only a small select audience, most blogs are just “out there” and read by a great number of people many of whom are unknown to the author.
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The Zombies
If you are a certain “vintage” you will no doubt remember The Zombies, the British rock band that formed (1962) in St. Albans, a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England. Their first British and American hit was 1964’s “She’s Not There.” Other songs you might remember are, “Time of The Season,” “Tell Her No,” or “The…
Music & Memory: Play It Again…North!
Los Angeles: November 17, 2025. Today is a milestone day for me, and I am indulging myself by writing something personal on this, my 75th birthday! Yup, three quarters of a century on this planet…sigh. I started thinking about writing something like this almost a year ago, when I was in Stratford, Ontario, helping my…
What Ya Been Readin,’ What ya Been Watchin’?
As I sit down to write (3/17/25) what I hope will come across as an attempt to inject some wry commentary on what has been happening “out” there, it has been exactly 57 days since the 60th inauguration took place in Washington, DC. I mean, why should only the late-night talk show hosts have all…
“Hey Joe!”
For anyone reading this who knows me well, I will assume that what popped into you head after seeing my title and the accompanying photo went something like this: “Why the ^%&^$ is he writing about coffee?” Or perhaps it went: “Coffee! The dude’s never had a cup of coffee in his life!” For those…
“Idiocracy: The WTFquel!”
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that since this disaster-of-an-election “race” began, way too long ago, that what has transpired since January 15th, 2024 (Trump’s winning of the Iowa primary), was written expressly for a futuristic and dystopian movie, or multi-episode docudrama? That is exactly how I was feeling exactly eight months…
Are You A “Fan?”
Ah, baseball, more specifically, Major League Baseball (MLB) or, as it’s often called, “Big Leagues,” or “The Bigs.” It is also often referred to as “America’s game,” but that designation is not as clear these days as professional football is now competing for that moniker. Some of you reading this might be wondering, and rightly…
You Look… ?
When I first saw this picture when it showed up on one of my social media feeds a day or two after the start of RNC, July 15, 2024, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. But it sure got me thinking, and thinking, and thinking. The first thing that popped into my…
“Do You Need a ‘Spoonful” of “Make Up Your Mind’?”
If you read my title and immediately started singing to yourself – “Did you ever have to make up your mind? / And pick up one and leave the other behind? / It’s not often easy and not often kind. / Did you ever have to make up your mind?” – give yourself two points.…
What They Said…
These Facebook memes, or whatever you want to call them, seem to be all the rage these days. I can’t begin to tell you how many I have seen in the last little while, and normally I either chuckle or go: “Really.” Of course, the supposed “quotes” are most often not uttered by the person…
“Let’s Get Ready to Rumble (Rhumble)!”
The first “rumble” in my title was popularized by wrestling announcer Michael Buffer, who uttered the phrase just before some scary looking men (and now women) were about to engage in a “wrestling” match, or what Roland Barthes, in his 1954 essay “The World of Wrestling,” called “all-in wrestling” (more on this shortly). The “h”…
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